The state judiciary is skewed toward former prosecutors, raising questions about the overall fairness of the judicial system, experts told The Denver Post.
The state judiciary is skewed toward former prosecutors, raising questions about the overall fairness of the judicial system, experts told The Denver Post.
The Colorado judiciary is skewed toward former prosecutors, raising questions about the overall fairness of the judicial system, the importance of professional diversity among judges and how much judges' prior work impacts their decision making on the bench, experts told The Post.
A Colorado Springs woman who testified against her former boyfriend in a 2018 double murder she was an accessory to was sentenced to two years of supervised probation Thursday.
Rivers is being held in El Paso County, according to online jail records
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) A jury has convicted a Colorado Springs man in a 2018 double-slaying in which a woman and man were shot and left in a burning car in a scheme to steal marijuana.
The panel on Friday found Nashid Rayon Rivers guilty of of first-degree murder in the killings of Serena Garcia of Parker and Marcus Denton of Atchison, Kansas.
Rivers also was convicted of aggravated robbery, tampering with human bodies and other counts. Fourth Judicial District Judge Frances Johnson imposed an automatic penalty of life in prison without parole. Rivers told the judge he was innocent.